busy weekend

We've had a busy past few days! Joel's birthday was on Thursday--according to the girls he is "firty-two" which sounds a lot like "forty-two", but Joel was always fast to correct them!! They were so excited to decorate the table, wrap presents, and surprise him when he came home from work. I had planned to make a nice dinner and also bake a cake with Larkin while Willa napped, but Willa refused to nap and threw off all our plans! So we headed to Chuy's instead and baked the cake the following day!

Friday night we had a babysitter and met our friends Mitch and Melissa for a night out. We headed to South Congress and saw a Rat Rod car show and then got some drinks nearby. Larkin always refers to Melissa as "Falissa" and she did not understand why Falissa was not coming over to see her!

Saturday we went to a farm in Austin. I have recently started getting some veggies from a CSA farm each week, and they were having an open house and potluck. We walked all the way around one of the growing fields and saw a lot of the vegetables that were in our last few boxes. Larkin even spotted the red lettuce we had for lunch all by herself--"HEY! Here's our lettuce growing in the ground!!" If anyone is interested in checking it out, here's the website--www.jbgorganic.com. We've been really happy with it so far! Larkin says their carrots "taste like candy!"
I wish I would have taken some pics while we were there--the girls were so cute in their sunhats and Willa did her first sack race!

Sunday we went to the Wildflower Center and took some pics in the bluebonnets. I can't even begin to explain how hard it is to:
A. Get the girls to wear something that does not make them look like Punky Brewster. They are BOTH dressing themselves now (sometimes with outfit changes each hour) and are VERY particular about what they wear!
B. Get them to both look at the camera
C. Plan a time to take the pics so that we have good lighting, and no nap or preschool time conflicts

The weeds are starting to catch up with the bluebonnets, so we just threw all my idealistic planning out the window and took some pics at the Wildflower Center. The lighting was terrible and the girls did not like sitting in front of the bluebonnets, so this is the best I'll be able to do this year!